Improvement in washing-machines



l. `1W. HANNAH.

Washing-Machirms,i

UNITED STATES JAMES W. lHANNAH, OF STICKLERVILLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,576, dated June 3, 1873; application filed April 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs WILsoN HAN. NAH, of Sticklerville, in the county of Sullivan and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing- Machine, of which the Vfollowing is a specilication:

Figure 1 is a top view of my `improved Washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal ection of the same taken through the line x a',

Similar letters .of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved washing-machine, simple in construction, convenient in use, easily operated, and effective in operation, washin g the clothes Vquickly and thoroughly. The invention consists in the combination of the rubber formed by the combination ofthe semicircular end plates and the semi-ring intermediate plates scalloped upon their convex edges, the crossround, the shaft, the levers with Veach other and with the box or tub, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the body or tub of the machine, which is made semifcylindrieal in form, having vertical wooden ends and curved Zinc bottom and sides. The box A is supported upon legs B of such a length as to raise the machine to a convenient height, and which are attached to the ends of said box. In the middle part of the ends of the box A leading downward from their upper edges are formed vertical slots to receive the journals of the rubber, the ends of which enter grooves in the vertical bars or standards G attached to the outer sides of said ends. To the inner or concave surface ofthe bottom and sides of the box A, at suitable dis= tances apart, areattached round cleats D. E

are the end plates ofthe rubber, which are i made semicircular in form and are'connected and held in their proper positions by the crossa rounds F and shaft G. To the rounds F, at equal and short distances apart, are secured the concave edges ot' segments H of ring plates. The convex edges of the plates E and H are scalloped, as shown in Fig. 2. To the end plates E and shaftG are. attached barsor levers I, the upper ends of which are connected by a round, J, which servesasa handle in operating the rubber. the plates E H, being vertical, pass easily through the water and without carrying the water with them,-which makes the labor of operating the machine very slight, and at the s ime time the scalloped edges of said plates operating upon the clothes clean them in a very short time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent y The rubber formed by the combination of the semicircular 'end plates F and the semiring intermediate plates H, scalloped upon their convex edges, the cross-.rounds F, the shaft G, the levers I, and handle J with each other and with the box A B C, substantially as herein shown and described. Y .L

JAMES W. HANNAH.

Witnesses:

S. M. PICKLER, M. H. DAVID.

By this construction' 

